Trump marked the Apollo 11 anniversary by highlighting his space achievements and plans to return Americans to the Moon and ...

S. Somanath, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, announced in August 2023 that "India is on the moon." The ...

Draconian budget and staff cuts could mean another Challenger disaster, warn current and former NASA employees.

President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) included provisions for billions more dollars towards a ...

We’ve made it through another surprisingly busy summer week. But, hey, one lucky buyer snagged the biggest Mars meteorite to ...

Space industry companies urged Congress on Monday not to cut funding to the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) in multiple letters. “We write today on behalf of more than 450 U.S. space, satellite, ...

These policy directives clarify the U.S. government’s goals in space, including how it should both support and rely on the commercial space sector, track objects in Earth’s orbit and protect ...

President Donald Trump released a new national space policy Wednesday (Dec. 9), laying out the fundamental principles of, and chief priorities for, the United States' space activities going forward.

President Donald Trump has selected US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy as interim NASA administrator, the ...

NASA’s Artemis program plans to return humans to the Moon by 2026. Second, both Trump and Musk support commercial involvement in space. Trump’s Space Policy Directive 1 specifically calls for ...

Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s ...

U.S. President Barack Obama’s National Space Policy, at least the version that’s been made public, strikes positive chords with its calls for international cooperation and, more importantly ...